Slight vibration on Asus ROG - is it normal?

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  1. The Mad Titan

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    I got a ROG about a month ago, and yesterday I noticed that the place where I rest my left wrist vibrates slightly - very slightly, barely noticeable.
    The vibration is more noticeable when the laptop is placed on a hard surface, and less noticeable when it's on my lap.

    Also, if I put my head close to that spot I can hear very faint clicking. The clicking goes away when the hard drives and the fan are not idle.

    Are these things normal? Thanks in advance.
     
  2. Dalby

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    That's just extra features that they throw in on ROG products :D

    No srsly, I don't know if it is somehow the same, but before I got an SSD my HDD was also doing some wierd clicking, and I found that it was the "free fall sensor" that occasionally thought my laptop was in a free fall, when in fact it was sitting safely on a desk. Fixed it by uninstalling the driver which job was to protect the drive in case of a drop (actually not really a fix).
     
  3. Extraordinary

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    Fans and HDDs have moving parts, so I would expect some degree of vibration / noise
     
  4. Dalby

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    I agree, it's probably nothing out of the ordinary
     

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    i have one also. mine vibrates only when a disk is in the drive as its under the left wrist
     

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